Results for: be the change
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I Thought About Leaving Florida — Learning About Our Queer History Convinced Me To Stay
The truth is, as hard as I ride for it now, there was a time when I couldn’t imagine living here anymore, too.
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Untethered: Mercury Retrogayde
USPS has been sending my mail to my ex.
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Alone but Not Lonely at the Precipice of 30
Being 30 meant I was free. In my child mind, it was the ultimate age of adulthood. It meant that no one could hurt me anymore.Â
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Always End Cuts
My wife and I were speeding through the hills of southern Vermont when I proposed a special date night.
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Is There Life After High School?
“I wanted to have nightmares about monsters or mass shootings. It was too embarrassing — in the midst of global catastrophe — to be concerned with something as frivolous as high school.”
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What My Spotify Wrapped Should Have Said
I’ve learned that a ranked list of songs can be just as powerful as an end-of-year journal entry.Â
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At the Passover Table, New Traditions Will Be Born
This year feels like the first of many years where I begin to truly incorporate my partner’s cultural traditions into our family.
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Give It Time, Delphine
To really love anything, I think, is to run the risk of it not loving you back.
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Gaza, We Carry You With Us
Every few days, Healthcare Workers Watch sends me a google drive folder with lists of names and photos of healthcare workers killed and abducted in Gaza.
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Untethered: Turning Dancing, D&D, and Body Piercings Into Friendships
One of the things about not having spent significant time being single is that my friends have often been tangled up with partners.
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Calling Myself a Lesbian Has Been a Lesson in Self Acceptance
I think this is always who I’ve been, and the other words were the ones I was trying on to see if they fit.
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Black Girls Are Always at the Center of Horror
There is a haunting that black girls know.
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Revisiting the Scary Movie Sleepover
Horror movies are for the depressed and anxious gays.
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The Gayest Things I Did in My Twenties
I’m 23, and I’m not sure if I’m on a date (I’m not).
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Seltzer Tastes Like Punishment
There are so many good songs about drinking but none about seltzer, have you noticed that?
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As a Nonbinary Abortion Activist, Planning a Pregnancy Is Complicated — And Hopeful
Just after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, my doctor asks if I’m excited to have another baby.
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Leaning Into Pleasure at the Janelle Monáe Listening Party
The leftover swirls of emotion from the sheer queerness of the event, of the attendees, of the joy, are still sustaining me, even as Pride month comes to a close.
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Every Life on This Page All at Once
I’m burdened by unlived lives, hovering within my dreams, just behind my pupils.
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Let Me Be in My Queer Italianx Feelings for a Minute
It was a simple post. So simple and, in the grand scheme of it all, not super meaningful, and yet, I teared up.
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Empty Magic: Breakfast
I used to love breakfast. Toast with butter and strawberry jam. Cinnamon raisin bread with a smattering of cinnamon sugar. Scrambled eggs with cheese and sausage, pancakes with fresh fruit, and swirls of maple syrup.